Sunday, June 27, 2010
Fellas: Love your body more
We would like to welcome to our pages for the first time a distinguished guest writer by the moniker of, Smotha Righter. His caustic, if heartfelt columns, will soon be available everywhere. We are glad to have first dibs.
Somebody once told me, "Take care of your body, its the only one you get." Advice that I seem to remember taking lightly at the moment, the passage of time, entropy, has underlined the soundness of this simple suggestion.
I have fifty-year old friend, the mother of four children, and people are forever telling her that she looks ten years younger than her age. From her kids' adolescent peers to attractive men in their thirties, she is perceived as younger. Her secret? She took and takes care of her body, like many more women than men. It is no coincidence that the rise of MILF as a wildly popular slang for attractive older women has occurred during an era where older women are taking better care of their bodies than ever previously.
As for myy friend it helps of course, that she doesn't drink or smoke. On the other hand as W.C. Fields once put it, "I pity those who don't drink, because when they wake up in the morning, that's the best they are going to feel all day." So there is that...
But either a drinker or no, the time is now, fellas, to fall in with the ladies. Take care of your body. My friend, she eats right and never to wild excess. She exercises. She puts on some sort of creams and lotions. I have been in her bathroom, but I am a guy, so the details of such things remain a mystery to me. The point is not the exact regimen, but simply that you have one. My own male roommate prefers to read the health advice to men in Esquire Magazine. Whatever. So long as you do something and stick to it.
It is not rocket science. What did they tell you as a kid? Wash behind your ears, in your pits, your butt crack, and underneath your balls, fellas. Oh wait, maybe that was what they told you in the Marines, but the point is the same. Do some maintenance on your body. You change your car's oil every 5,000 miles? Mix in a salad, do regular exercise, use skin lotion.
Think hard for a minute, fellas, and try to determine if your skin seems more oily or dry. Come on now, you have been living in it your whole life. It is perfectly acceptable to conclude that you are oily in some places and dry in others. Pony up and get two kinds of lotion or skin cream. Read the labels and apply accordingly. [The labels say whether they are for oily or dry skin.] Don't get something that smells flowery.
Check your body out. Buy a hand held mirror if you do not have a full length one. You think she doesn't notice if she gets a new growth, a new mole, a new zit, an in-grown hair? Want to look great yourself, than you should notice too. Not to mention sometimes these are the warning signs to other things that are much more treatable if you catch them earlier.
Body maintenance. Make it a norm. Take a baby aspirin on the days you're not drinking, and/or before intense exercise. Get some intense exercise at least once a week. Take walks when you can't mix in any other exercise. Stretch as often as you can. Find a partner and have sex. Love thine ownself. Body and soul. Love and care for your body. We all have but a precious one. Wash regularly, smelling good is très important.
Somebody once told me, "Take care of your body, its the only one you get." Advice that I seem to remember taking lightly at the moment, the passage of time, entropy, has underlined the soundness of this simple suggestion.
I have fifty-year old friend, the mother of four children, and people are forever telling her that she looks ten years younger than her age. From her kids' adolescent peers to attractive men in their thirties, she is perceived as younger. Her secret? She took and takes care of her body, like many more women than men. It is no coincidence that the rise of MILF as a wildly popular slang for attractive older women has occurred during an era where older women are taking better care of their bodies than ever previously.
As for myy friend it helps of course, that she doesn't drink or smoke. On the other hand as W.C. Fields once put it, "I pity those who don't drink, because when they wake up in the morning, that's the best they are going to feel all day." So there is that...
But either a drinker or no, the time is now, fellas, to fall in with the ladies. Take care of your body. My friend, she eats right and never to wild excess. She exercises. She puts on some sort of creams and lotions. I have been in her bathroom, but I am a guy, so the details of such things remain a mystery to me. The point is not the exact regimen, but simply that you have one. My own male roommate prefers to read the health advice to men in Esquire Magazine. Whatever. So long as you do something and stick to it.
It is not rocket science. What did they tell you as a kid? Wash behind your ears, in your pits, your butt crack, and underneath your balls, fellas. Oh wait, maybe that was what they told you in the Marines, but the point is the same. Do some maintenance on your body. You change your car's oil every 5,000 miles? Mix in a salad, do regular exercise, use skin lotion.
Think hard for a minute, fellas, and try to determine if your skin seems more oily or dry. Come on now, you have been living in it your whole life. It is perfectly acceptable to conclude that you are oily in some places and dry in others. Pony up and get two kinds of lotion or skin cream. Read the labels and apply accordingly. [The labels say whether they are for oily or dry skin.] Don't get something that smells flowery.
Check your body out. Buy a hand held mirror if you do not have a full length one. You think she doesn't notice if she gets a new growth, a new mole, a new zit, an in-grown hair? Want to look great yourself, than you should notice too. Not to mention sometimes these are the warning signs to other things that are much more treatable if you catch them earlier.
Body maintenance. Make it a norm. Take a baby aspirin on the days you're not drinking, and/or before intense exercise. Get some intense exercise at least once a week. Take walks when you can't mix in any other exercise. Stretch as often as you can. Find a partner and have sex. Love thine ownself. Body and soul. Love and care for your body. We all have but a precious one. Wash regularly, smelling good is très important.
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